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Search for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS Project
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The Taiwan-America Occultation Survey (TAOS) aims to determine the number of small icy bodies in the outer reach of the Solar System by means of stellar occultation. An array of 4 robotic small (D=0.5 m), wide-field (f/1.9) telescopes have been installed at Lulin Observatory in Taiwan to simultaneously monitor some thousand of stars for such rare occultation events. Because a typical occultation event by a TNO a few km across will last for only a fraction of a second, fast photometry is neces...
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- Journal:
- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- S236
- Pages:
- 65-68
- Publication date:
- 2006-11-16
- DOI:
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1743-9221
- ISSN:
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1743-9213
- Source identifiers:
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97846
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- English
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pubs:97846
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- pubs:97846
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- 2006
- Notes:
- 4 pages, 3 figures, IAU Symposium 236
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